{"id":21,"date":"2005-12-06T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2005-12-06T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T15:30:00","slug":"moondacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/21\/moondacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Moondacity…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Talton<\/a> is the Arizona’s Republic’s<\/i> house Socialist. He hates just about everything associated with free enterprise, but he makes up for it by waxing rhapsodic over any stray government boondoggle. He is convinced that Phoenix will continue to go down the toilet by growing and prospering until it dares to mimic all the idiotic urban policies people move here to escape. The Republic<\/i> runs his column on the business page for the same reason they run articles by effete anti-athletic esthetes on the sports pages. Oh, wait–they don’t do that…<\/p>\n

In any event, Talton suffers from a rabid moondacity, a desperate need to tell mooney, transparent lies in support of unsupportable stupidities. From the Latin moondax, moondacis,<\/i> moondacity denotes an incurable condition in which the sufferer’s brain has turned into green cheese. It is epidemic in certain circles of Phoenix, particularly in the city government, where the afflicted affect to believe–and attempt to persuade others to believe–that Downtown will be revitalized by the erection of skyscrapers made exclusively from huge stacks of tax-dollars.<\/p>\n

Here is a sampling of Moondacity, Talton style:<\/p>\n

Maroney’s is closing at Central Avenue and Camelback Road, taking away a landmark that has stood since the 1940s. There’s a back story, of course: the dry cleaner sits atop contaminated groundwater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Closing”–what a failed business does–and “taking away a landmark”–what a tornado does–are not the same thing. This kind of corrupt conflation is constant among the moondacious, so learn to watch out for it. But this is the bigger lie: “the dry cleaner sits atop contaminated groundwater.” In fact, Maroney’s sits atop groundwater that it<\/i> contaminated by dumping dry-cleaning chemicals into the ground-table for decades. Even so, the “contaminated groundwater” didn’t cause the business to fail. Want to know what did? You can figure it out by inverting the next bout of moondacity:<\/p>\n

Viacom, which owns the property and its lucrative billboards, is working with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to clean up the site. So this is hardly a business closing that can be blamed on the coming of light rail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did you catch it? When Talton says, “this is hardly a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Talton is the Arizona’s Republic’s house Socialist. He hates just about everything associated with free enterprise, but he makes up for it by waxing rhapsodic over any stray government boondoggle. He is convinced that Phoenix will continue to go down the toilet by growing and prospering until it dares to mimic all the idiotic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/49\/look-whos-talking-part-ii-revenge-of-the-shiny-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"Look who’s talking, Part II: Revenge of The Shiny People","author":"Odysseus","date":"January 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"When Jon Talton lied in the Arizona Republic, telling you that Maroney's Dry Cleaning store on Central Avenue had not been killed by Trolley construction, when it fact it had, I wrote this:The trolley is killing long-established businesses up and down its route, and the green-cheese-heads who inflicted it on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/55\/one-year-of-experience-eleven-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":1},"title":"One year of experience eleven times…?","author":"Odysseus","date":"February 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Our most favorite real estate oracle, Catherine Reagor of the Arizona Republic weighs in with some observations that may actually be as undefended as they are unthought out. 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